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SUMMARY:Multicultural Competency in Psychodynamic Practice
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alicia Naveas\, LPC\, MEd. This course will explore foundational concepts of cultural competency within psychodynamic frameworks. Emphasizing the work of authors such as Tummala-Narra\, Salman Akhtar\, and Patricia Gherovici will integrate multicultural awareness into psychoanalytic thinking. For instance\, Tummala-Narra (2025) conceptualizes multicultural competence as a reflective capacity to shift perspectives and understand the patient’s lived experience. Credits: 4.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/multicultural-competency-in-psychodynamic-practice/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 7700 Clayton Rd.\, Suite 200\, St. Louis\, MO 63117 & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260303T190000
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SUMMARY:The Independent Tradition in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rudy Oldeschulte\, MA\, JD\, MACP. This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate to our work with younger populations\, as it moves from the more epistemological (knowing) approach\, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight\, to a more ontological framework (being and becoming). The emphasis is on the child talking through their play and the adolescent exploring who they are through discussions of music\, films\, sports\, inter alia. This results in the child and the parents beginning to understand their child’s emotional struggles and how they are to be managed. Credits: 3.0
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-independent-tradition-in-child-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy-2/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T220000
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SUMMARY:Fingert Lecture: The Unobtrusive Relational Analyst: Enactment\, Trauma\, and Time
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Robert Grossmark\, PhD\, ABPP. Unrepresented and yet-to-be-suffered trauma and neglect announce themselves in the language of symptoms\, absence and emergent enactments in the treatment field. This lecture will address the challenges when working with patients whose trauma does not avail itself to symbolization and mentalization. In this lecture I will outline how the analyst can unobtrusively create the safe and robust space within which the fullness of the patient’s internal world and trauma can be realized and companioned such that the patient can be known in the register of illusion\, fragmentation and non-relatedness that are the signature of the residue of trauma and neglect. The emphasis is on companioning and being-with the patient in their particular idiom and register rather than seeking to bring the patient into the analyst’s reality and understanding. This unique therapeutic relationship offers the space for the instantiation of time such that trauma can be located in memory and the past. This involves the un-telling and un-doing of prior “translations”\, personality structures and relational patterns such that being and time can be re-assembled and re-integrated. Credits: 1.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/fingert-lecture-the-unobtrusive-relational-analyst-enactment-trauma-and-time/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260211T213000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
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SUMMARY:Falling in Love (with Nikki Karalekas\, PhD\, LCSW)
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nikki Karalekas\, PhD\, LCSW. \nLove is both mysterious and a psychoanalytic term of art. Despite worrying that love was beyond the scope of scientific inquiry\, Freud developed several different theories of love. Perhaps most famously\, in the Three Essays on Sexuality\, he writes\, “The prototype of every love relationship is the child sucking at his mother’s breast. The finding of the love object is in fact a refinding” (p. 222). More recently\, psychoanalysis has drawn on and expanded beyond Freud’s theories of love as a repetition compulsion\, a narcissistic projection\, or an atonement for loss. Contemporary thinkers have developed theories of yearning and desire; mature and immature love; and love as an achievement. But what are all of those often maddening\, explosive\, and tingling feelings of falling in love\, really? This Valentine’s Day\, I invite you to put cynicism aside and join us for a psychoanalytic exploration of falling in love. \nCredits: 4.5
URL:https://apsa.org/event/falling-in-love-with-nikki-karalekas-phd-lcsw/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T201500
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20251024T182742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260102T231654Z
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SUMMARY:A Psychodynamic Approach to Working with Adolescents & Their Parents
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: John Lucas\, LPC. Many clinicians are hesitant to begin working with adolescents\, although there is a significant need for adolescent therapists. This course will serve as a primer on working with adolescents and their parents/caregivers from a psychodynamic framework. We will cover both theoretical and clinical perspectives. The course will highlight the contributions of psychoanalysts to the field of adolescent psychotherapy and parent work. Credits: 5.0
URL:https://apsa.org/event/a-psychodynamic-approach-to-working-with-adolescents-their-parents/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260107T214500
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20251024T182542Z
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SUMMARY:American Slavery & Psychoanalytic Reflection
DESCRIPTION:Spreaker: Volney Gay\, PhD. We explore American slave owners who embodied the existential contradiction of American values (individual liberty) with human bondage. We focus on their struggles to defend themselves against that contradiction. We locate those struggles within the biographies of famous persons\, such as President Washington\, and unknown persons who claimed to be both adamantly for liberty AND yet were adamantly pro slavery. Psychoanalysis offers unique insights into those struggles and the national crime they engendered. Credits: 3.75
URL:https://apsa.org/event/american-slavery-psychoanalytic-reflection/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T193000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
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SUMMARY:I.H. Cohn Lecture: What Bion Meant by "Dying"
DESCRIPTION:What is a baby trying to say when it is crying? For British psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion\, cries are more than a call for food or assistance. They are expressions of an all-consuming fear: of dying. Understanding this fear\, and responding to it empathically was\, for him\, essential to the work of parenting—and analysis. But what does it mean that Bion placed dying at the beginning—not the end—of life? And how does his use of this term relate to both his early work on linking and thinking\, as well as his later explorations of mysticism? This lecture will answer these question by exploring what Bion meant by “dying” and why it matters for clinicians and psychoanalytic theorists today.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/i-h-cohn-lecture-what-bion-meant-by-dying/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251008T210000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20251008T220531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251009T134750Z
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SUMMARY:Dreamweavers: Children who Dream & Wonder
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Linda Horrell\, MDiv\, MSW\, LCSW. This course is for anyone curious about child development and for experienced psychotherapists who are interested in the psychoanalytic insights into the dreams of children and adolescents. We will have fun discussing the animation\, Dream Productions\, a Pixar-created mini-series from the creators of Inside Out.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dreamweavers-children-who-dream-wonder/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-person: 7700 Clayton Rd.\, Suite 200\, St. Louis\, MO 63117 & Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251004T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20251008T220528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251008T220528Z
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SUMMARY:Paul A Dewald Lecture: A.I.\, What Have We Created & Why?
DESCRIPTION:Humanity has engineered a new Other. Sometimes referred to as “alien intelligence\,” AI technology has the capability to think about our minds\, communicate with us at conscious and unconscious levels\, and act as a new “container” for human psychic life. From a psychoanalytic perspective\, AI is our symptom. What does it reflect about humanity? Our conflicts and our desires? Join Dr. Amy Levy as she shines light on the meanings\, origins\, and effects of this very human innovation.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/paul-a-dewald-lecture-a-i-what-have-we-created-why/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250402T193000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240909T150458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T150458Z
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SUMMARY:Writing and Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Harold Braswell\, PhD & Nikki Karalekas\, PhD. This course will explore the relationship between writing and psychoanalysis through a group workshop process. We will begin by holding two courses exploring the connection between psychoanalysis and writing: How do psychoanalysts work with difficulties that can arise during the creative process? How do we support our patients’ creativity and our own? How might we give peers psychoanalytically minded feedback on their writing? We will then spend a day together reading and providing feedback on each other’s writing. Prior writing experience is not required.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/writing-and-psychoanalysis/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T190000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240909T150258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240909T150258Z
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SUMMARY:Creativity & Early Loss
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chester Smith\, MEd\, LPC. Loss and trauma in general have long been understood to play a role in the creative process for many famous artists. Using the early histories of Munch\, Van Gogh\, and Picasso we will look at the role of loss as a contributor to their art. In this course we will also explore psychoanalytic views on how early development influences the development of the capacity for imagination and creativity. We will identify and discuss factors involved in creative inhibitions. Also addressed in the course will be the relationship of art to the artist and viewer through the lens of the “container-contained commensal relationship” (Maniadakis\, 2020) as well as exploration of the concept of art as a transitional object.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/creativity-early-loss/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250328T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240920T210840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250320T214835Z
UID:20000453-1743193800-1743199200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Fingert Lecture: What Words Can't Say. The Talking Cure and the Limits of Language
DESCRIPTION:Howard Levine\, MD: Psychoanalysis is ‘the talking cure\,’ but the problems raised by language are complex\, paradoxical\, and perhaps unsolvable. At their most effective\, words play a vital role in psychic homeostatic regulation and the psychoanalytic process that is analogous to the architecturally structural role played by the keystone of an arch. The problem\, however\, is that words can be used to reveal or conceal\, to convey meaning or obscure\, distort\, hide\, fragment\, or evacuate meaning. And sometimes the very nature of language falls short of being able to capture and adequately communicate the psychic dimensions of our emotional lives. This paper explores the limitations and possibilities of words and language in psychoanalysis from the perspective of the work of Freud\, Bion and Green and ends with a coda from the writings of an analysand.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/fingert-lecture-what-words-cant-say-the-talking-cure-and-the-limits-of-language/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250228T160000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20250228T194446Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250228T194446Z
UID:20000541-1740758400-1740758400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Analytic Training Virtual Open House
DESCRIPTION:Curious about psychoanalytic education & training? Whether you’re dipping your toes into the field or gearing up to apply\, our virtual Open House is the perfect place to explore what’s possible. Join us for an afternoon filled with insightful conversations\, meaningful connections\, and a welcoming community ready to share their experiences. Meet our esteemed faculty and current candidates. Connect with like-minded individuals who share your passion for psychoanalysis. Ask questions-or uncover new ones that deepen your curiosity.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/analytic-training-virtual-open-house/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250122T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250122T213000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240909T150058Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241220T182151Z
UID:20000422-1737577800-1737581400@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Judith Butler's Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:This course will focus on Butler’s experience and engagement with psychoanalysis\, in order to explore what impact their thinking can hold for clinical practice. We will focus both on their early work concerning gender as well as more recent writings about non-violence.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/judith-butlers-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250116T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240920T210640Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241204T051243Z
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SUMMARY:Paul A. Dewald Lecture: Developing a Stable Internal Home
DESCRIPTION:Aisha Abbasi\, MD: Homesickness is a commonly used term\, and a feeling that has been studied with interest\, in psychoanalysis. The connection and distinction between homesickness and nostalgia has been noted in many analytic papers. Normal and pathological forms of both have been described. In this paper\, Dr. Abbasi discusses the theoretical framework that informs our current understanding of homesickness. She outlines developmental factors that affect the evolution\, emergence\, and at times\, the persistence of this feeling. Using clinical vignettes from her work\, she demonstrates how and why the sense of homesickness emerges in therapeutic work at the time when it does\, and the challenges and opportunities it presents\, both for the patient and the analyst. Dr. Abbasi also shares with us her evolving understanding of her own feelings of homesickness\, following two major immigrations in her life: one\, when she moved from Pakistan to the USA in 1987; and the other\, when she moved from Michigan to Portland\, Oregon\, in 2023. She delineates the intrapsychic work involved in such a process\, and postulates that such work gives rise to the development of a new and more stable internal home within one’s mind. She elaborates on the implications of this idea for analytic technique\, especially as patients consider ending their work with the analyst. She also sees this as an important aspect of adult maturation and growth\, one that is profoundly helpful during relocations\, both local and distant\, that many adults go through. Building upon Mahler’s description of the first separation-individuation phase of toddlerhood\, Blos’ understanding of adolescence as a second individuation\, and Akhtar’s insights about immigration as a third individuation\, Dr. Abbasi suggests that the development of a stable internal home in one’s mind\, during mid to late adult life\, is akin to a fourth individuation process within the self.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/paul-a-dewald-lecture-developing-a-stable-internal-home/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241031T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240909T145858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T031839Z
UID:20000417-1730404800-1730412000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:The Independent Tradition in Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:This is an introductory course on the evolution of the Independent Tradition (British in origin) applied to our work with children and adolescents. This tradition (or approach) is developmentally appropriate to our work with younger populations\, as it moves from the more epistemological (knowing) approach\, with its emphasis on interpretation and insight\, to a more ontological framework (being and becoming). The emphasis is on the child talking through their play and the adolescent exploring who they are through discussions of music\, films\, sports\, inter alia. This results in the child and the parents beginning to understand their child’s emotional struggles and how they are to be managed.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/the-independent-tradition-in-child-adolescent-psychoanalytic-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241030T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240909T145857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T030127Z
UID:20000416-1730318400-1730325600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Windows into Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do\, we offer a “window” into the process and a chance to connect an introduction to theory with actual clinical material. Each class will begin with a brief theoretical description of a core clinical concept\, followed by the presentation and discussion of material from a long-term psychotherapy process. We welcome lively discussion\, dialogue\, and debate.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/windows-into-psychotherapy-2/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240920T210424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T175459Z
UID:20000437-1728592200-1728597600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:I.H. Cohn Lecture: When the Teacher's Feelings Hurt
DESCRIPTION:Edmund Sprunger\, MSW\, LCSW: Students sometimes seem to dismiss their teachers’ best attempts to help them learn. They might ignore simple directions\, roll their eyes\, sigh\, or mention that elephants are the only animal that cannot jump. Teachers can also feel disregarded by parents\, who may attempt to discredit a teacher\, fail to support their children’s learning\, or fault a teacher for not being motivating enough. This lecture presents ways to understand these behaviors\, and useful ways to react to them—including using them as a springboard for development.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/i-h-cohn-lecture-when-the-teachers-feelings-hurt/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240822T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240814T193125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T201321Z
UID:20000364-1724356800-1724364000@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Suicidality: Learning from the Personal Experience of Suicidal People
DESCRIPTION:Phoebe Cirio\, MSW\, LCSW: William Styron vividly recounts the experience of his suicidal depression while suffering a breakdown in mid-life\, in his small book Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness. Styron’s material will be a large part of the narrative basis for the class\, which will be augmented with psychoanalytic theoretical material on the precipitants of suicide. We will examine the subjective experience of suicidality\, and the particular stressors this causes for clinicians treating such persons. \n  \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/suicidality-learning-from-the-personal-experience-of-suicidal-people/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T140000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20240814T193125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240814T201027Z
UID:20000363-1723892400-1723903200@apsa.org
SUMMARY:What Then Must We Do? Social Work Ethics in a Time of Moral Injury
DESCRIPTION:Phoebe Cirio\, MSW\, LCSW: In a world where there is a high level of strife and anxiety\, and seemingly endless conflict\, including war\, ethnic violence\, sexism and gender attacks\, open displays of hostility within the United States\, and the rapidly changing climate\, the question arises what should we do? How does one in the mental health profession handle their own responses to these traumatizing events\, and how do we assist those who seek our help? In this course we will look at the usefulness of clinical work\, and specifically psychoanalytic thinking as a vehicle for the containment of strife and anxiety for our patients\, and for ourselves. We will consider the question of an ethical stance within the psychotherapeutic setting for facilitating the patient’s reconciliation with the impact of uncertainty in the world on their mental health. \n  \nCE.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/what-then-must-we-do-social-work-ethics-in-a-time-of-moral-injury/
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T223000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T214411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240131T031135Z
UID:20000143-1715891400-1715898600@apsa.org
SUMMARY:Traumatophilia: Notes on Libidinal Fugitivity
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Avgi Saketopoulou\, Psy.D. \nPsychoanalytic thinking teaches us that trauma leaves the subject fractured\, less agentic\, more subject to iterative\, stalled revisitations of the traumatic event. With the help of Jean Laplanche’s metapsychology\, Saketopoulou will discuss how significant possibilities for psychic transformation and for contact with experience are courted when we make ourselves passible (Lyotard\, Scarfone) to returning to the site of the trauma. Drawing our attention away from the usual – and somewhat rigid – framework of repetition compulsion\, this presentation foregrounds a different approach: traumatophilia. Traumatophilia concerns itself less with what to do about trauma\, which Saketopoulou describes as traumatophobic\, and rather draws attention to what subjects do with their trauma. Therein we find ourselves in the domain of limit consent\, that psychic territory where we encounter the vexed entanglements between freedom and constraint\, and wherefrom traumatized subjects can make bids to enlarged psychic freedoms. The trauma of slavery and racism’s durational persistence offer premier sites and searing examples for discussing these ideas\, revealing that traumatophobic paradigms generate new\, specifically psychoanalytic forms of racism.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/traumatophilia-notes-on-libidinal-fugitivity/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240411T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240320T204222Z
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SUMMARY:Truth\, Reconciliation\, and Reparation
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paula Christian Kliger\, PhD. \nTaking the position that a road paved with truth\, reconciliation\, and reparation is the road less traveled in our racial and sociocultural healing and our search for human resonance\, this presentation seeks to face our toxic history and asks the question “How do we heal?” It also asks the question “How do we move to sharing power and human resonance in our diverse world\, given our cumulative trauma of prejudice\, discrimination\, racism\, immeasurable global human suffering\, cruelty\, domination\, oppression\, home-grown domestic and police violence\, war\, and genocide?” Weaving in topics such as the 2014 murder of Michael Brown\, Dr. Kliger will encourage us to hold in mind others who remain the “unheard and unseen;” those whose emotional\, mental\, and spiritual safety and security is not assured—including our Black and brown\, Indigenous\, Asian\, and Jewish communities\, from younger to elder\, gendered\, transgender\, and nonbinary neighbors. She aims to foster our ability to integrate the destructive\, cumulative\, and collective trauma our ancestors passed on to us as well as our inheritance of their adaptive strengths and gifts. The ultimate goal of this presentation is to arise out anew\, wiser\, more ably exposed\, and emotionally ready for Truth\, Reconciliation and Reparation to take hold within ourselves\, and then\, to expand the inner communal circle to see and be with the Truth residing in others. \nCE credits.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/truth-reconciliation-and-reparation/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240327T170000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T235745Z
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SUMMARY:Dreaming of an Inclusive Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Casa de Salud’s Mental Health Collaborative with Patricia Gherovici\, PhD; Harold Braswell\, MSW\, PhD\nand Juliana Varela\, LCSW. \nPatricia Gherovici will compare two films documenting actual cures that push the boundaries of traditional psychoanalysis with two maverick psychoanalysts: Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian\, a 2013 French film by Arnaud Desplechin and Adieu Lacan a 2022 film by Richard Ledes. We will see how classical psychoanalytic concepts can open up to absorb radically different cultural modes: Blackfoot myth\, AfroBrazilian legend\, and Arabic narratives.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/dreaming-of-an-inclusive-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240314T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240314T223000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T234220Z
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SUMMARY:Increasing Adaptive Racial Socialization for Black Boys: A Culturally Competent Psychodynamic Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Huey Hawkins Jr.\, PhD\, LCSW. \nBlack men living in America have been designated as an “endangered species” for a variety of reasons\, namely the targeting and violence done to young Black men by police. Such experiences leave the parents of young Black boys to worry on a constant basis about the safety of their sons. Few scholars\, however\, have examined the unconscious effects of such worry on the young Black child’s experience of the holding environment and the subsequent identifications that inform his sense of self in relation to others. \nInspired by a recent qualitative research study\, this program explores the implicit and explicit psychological effects of cultural trauma. It aims to prepare the clinician: (1) to understand normative psychological experiences of racism for Black boys; (2) to cultivate a positive racial identity for Black boys; and (3) to teach Black boys ways to navigate safety in harmful racist environments.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/increasing-adaptive-racial-socialization-for-black-boys-a-culturally-competent-psychodynamic-analysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T203000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T233900Z
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SUMMARY:Writing & Creativity: A Psychoanalytic Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Nikki Karalekas\, PhD\, MSW\, LCSW and Harold Braswell\, MSW\, PhD. \nHow do we write psychoanalytically? How does psychoanalysis inform and enhance our writing practice? What role does writing have in clinical work? What is the relationship between writing\, revision\, and free association? How might we develop a psychoanalytically-informed understanding of—and treatment for—“writer’s block?” This retreat will start with a two hour class exploring these questions. Then we will pre-circulate our own short writing and engage in a process of peer review\, attuned to the larger question of what it might mean to workshop writing psychoanalytically. \nNo previous writing experience required.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/writing-creativity-a-psychoanalytic-retreat/
LOCATION:St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute\, 7700 Clayton Rd Ste 200\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63117\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240216T233949Z
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SUMMARY:Oppression Monopoly
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Richard D. Harvey\, PhD. \nThe Oppression Monopoly experience is quickly becoming widely known as a fun\, yet deeply impactful simulation of the dynamics of oppression. The overriding theme of the experience is that the lived experience of minorities is systemic and intersectional and requires systemic and intersectional solutions. The experience has many learning takeaways\, perhaps the most impactful is that virtually all participants leave with a deep appreciation for the need for deliberate and overt interventions and that “equity” rather than “equality” should be the focus of those interventions.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/oppression-monopoly/
LOCATION:St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute\, 7700 Clayton Rd Ste 200\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63117\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240110T223000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231109T171557Z
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SUMMARY:Radical Psychoanalysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Harold Braswell\, PhD\, MSW. The word “radical” is generally understood to mean a break from tradition. But\, etymologically\, the term also connotes a return to one’s roots. A “radical” psychoanalysis would\, in this sense\, seem paradoxical—but perhaps\, in the process\, faithful to the nature of the unconscious itself. This course explores this paradoxical radicality in three areas of psychoanalytic inquiry: clinical practice\, political action\, and the mind-body relationship. First\, we read Barnaby Barratt’s rethinking of oedipality alongside Dagmar Herzog’s analysis of Felix Guattari’s relevance to the “psychoanalytic left;” then we will read Daniel Gaztambide’s account of Freud as a “proto-postcolonial theorist” alongside Lara and Stephen Sheehi’s study of psychoanalysis in occupied Palestine; finally\, Jamieson Webster’s rethinking of conversion disorder will be considered alongside Michelle Stephen’s argument about the centrality of Black Lives Matter to psychoanalytic subjectivity. \nCE available.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/radical-psychoanalysis/
LOCATION:Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T120000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230810T212208Z
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SUMMARY:Relational Identity & Erotic Orientation: Polyamory and Kink as Identity Constructs
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Gary Hirshberg\, LCSW. This two session workshop will challenge clinicians to look at our own deeply held beliefs about sex and coupling\, specifically what is ‘perversion’ and what is ‘healthy’ coupling. Most of us have come of age and been trained to still consider kink as deviant and as deriving from early childhood trauma or exposure to overt sex. Most of us think of multiple partners\, open relationships and group marriages as resulting from overly sexual men. This workshop will challenge all of that and more as we explore the reality that kink is just as valid an expression of healthy sexuality as missionary position between a male and a female and that polyamory is also a deeply embedded aspect of identity for many\, just as monogamy is for some. With more of our patients opening up to all aspects of their identity and sexuality we clinicians need to catch up.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/relational-identity-erotic-orientation-polyamory-and-kink-as-identity-constructs/
LOCATION:St Louis Psychoanalytic Institute\, 7700 Clayton Rd Ste 200\, Saint Louis\, MO\, 63117\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230810T211515Z
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SUMMARY:Windows into Psychotherapy
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stuart Ozar\, MD and Juliana Varela\, MSW. For clinicians or mental health students who are curious about what it is that psychodynamic therapists actually do\, we offer a “window” into the process and a chance to connect an introduction to theory with actual clinical material. Each class will begin with a brief theoretical description of a core clinical concept\, followed by the presentation and discussion of material from a long-term psychotherapy process. We welcome lively discussion\, dialogue and debate.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/windows-into-psychotherapy/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231005T220000
DTSTAMP:20260709T112130
CREATED:20230810T205921Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230810T211339Z
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SUMMARY:Families\, Parents and Children: What can Psychodynamic-Psychoanalytic Treatment Offer?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tina Marie Dale\, LCSW. This course is intended for clinicians new to the therapeutic field or those with little to no exposure to the psychodynamic approach thus far in their professional careers. We will look at what the psychodynamic approach can offer to clinicians treating families\, treating children\, and/or working with parents. We will consider concepts such as transference\, countertransference\, internal objects\, sibling relationships\, as well as other concepts that inform and support child\, family\, and parent treatments. Video links and readings provided ahead of class will prepare participants for group discussion. We will also consider diversity among families in treatment. Class time will consist of lectures\, case examples\, and discussion among participants. Participants are expected to read and view the materials provided ahead of time and to arrive ready for discussion.
URL:https://apsa.org/event/families-parents-and-children-what-can-psychodynamic-psychoanalytic-treatment-offer/
LOCATION:Virtual (Click on event title to advance to website and registration page)
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